沃尔特·伯恩斯坦, 奥斯卡和艾美奖提名编剧, 星期六去世于他在曼哈顿的家中。 101, 他的寡妇, 格洛丽亚·鲁米斯（Gloria Loomis）, 告诉CNN.
他死于肺炎, 鲁米斯说.
Bernstein was best known for being blacklisted during Hollywood’s “Red Scare” of the 1950s. Caught up in the anti-communist movement punctuated by Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s notorious 指控 against the US State Department, Bernstein wrote under pseudonyms for years.
He also published with the help of friends and associates known as “fronts,” who listed their names as the supposed authors of Bernstein’s work.
Screenwriter Walter Bernstein attends an Academy panel on June 7, 2016 在纽约.
He reemerged as a screenwriter for the 1959 电影 “That Kind of Woman,” starring Sophia Loren and directed by Sidney Lumet.
His career rebounding, Bernstein’s highlighed works throughout the 1960s and ’70s 包括在内 “Fail Safe,” “Paris Blues,” “The Molly Maguires,” 和 “Yanks.” Bernstein also worked on “Something’s Got to Give,” the ill-fated Marilyn Monroe picture that was never completed due to her death in August 1962.
He gained a Best Original Screenplay Oscar nomination for “The Front,” 一个 1976 film starring Woody Allen that satirized the McCarthyism-era impact on writers in the industry.
在 1997, 伯恩斯坦原为 nominated for an Emmy writing award for “Miss Evers’ Boys,” an HBO movie about the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiments.
Prior to his successes in screenwriting, Bernstein attended Dartmouth College, served in World War II as a correspondent for the military newspaper Yank, 和 wrote for 纽约客.
Bernstein had been a longtime member of the union Writers Guild of America, 东, 哪一个 named an award after him in 2017 intended “to honor writers who have demonstrated with creativity, grace and bravery a willingness to confront social injustice in the face of adversity.”
